The Long Tide
Chapter 1 — The Harbour Wall
They buried Agnes Quell on a Tuesday, because the tide allowed it.
In Carrow everything waited on the water. The boats went out when it let them and came back when it let them, and the dead were carried up to the chapel on the hill when the causeway was dry enough for the cart.
Mara walked behind the cart in her mother’s good boots, which were half a size too small, and counted the gulls on the chapel roof.
Book oneThe Long Tide
Book twoThe Ferryman
Book threeThe Keeper’s Lamp
The Keeper’s Lamp
Part One
It was low tide. The boats sat in the mud at angles, like things that had been dropped.
At the far end of the wall the lighthouse stood with its back to the town, and for a moment Mara thought the fog had caught some trick of the evening in its glass. Then she saw that the lamp was lit.
The Keeper’s Door
a story
Nobody had climbed those stairs in eleven years. The keeper’s door had been chained since the winter the Margaret went down, and the chain was still there.
She could see it from here, a dark loop against the white paint.
EXT. HARBOUR WALL - DUSK
Fog over the water. MARA (30s) walks the length of the wall without a lamp. JONAS waits at the far end.
MARA
You read it.
JONAS
(beat)
I haven’t opened it.
SCENE ONE
The harbour wall at dusk. A single lamp, unlit. Water against stone.
MARA
You read it.
JONAS
I haven’t opened it.
1. SOUND: A gull, far off.
PAGE ONE
PANEL 1
Wide. Carrow at low tide. Boats lie in the mud at angles.
CAPTION: Eleven years later.
PANEL 2
Close on MARA’s hand, flat against the cold stone.
MARA: You read it.
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The Long Tide
Chapter 1 — The Harbour Wall
They buried Agnes Quell on a Tuesday, because the tide allowed it.
In Carrow everything waited on the water. The boats went out when it let them and came back when it let them.
Mara walked behind the cart in her mother’s good boots, which were half a size too small, and counted the gulls on the chapel roof.
The Long Tide
Chapter 1 — The Harbour Wall
They buried Agnes Quell on a Tuesday, because the tide allowed it.
In Carrow everything waited on the water. The boats went out when it let them and came back when it let them.
Mara walked behind the cart in her mother’s good boots, which were half a size too small, and counted the gulls on the chapel roof.
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The Long Tide
Chapter 7 — The Keeper’s Door
Nobody had climbed those stairs in eleven years. The keeper’s door had been chained since the winter the Margaret went down, and the chain was still there.
She could see it from here, a dark loop against the white paint
EXT. HARBOUR WALL - DUSK
Fog over the water. MARA (30s) walks the length of the wall without a lamp. JONAS waits at the far end.
MARA
You read it.
JONAS
(beat)
I haven’t opened it.
The Long Tide
Chapter 1 — The Harbour Wall
They buried Agnes Quell on a Tuesday, because the tide allowed it.
In Carrow everything waited on the water. The boats went out when it let them and came back when it let them.
Mara walked behind the cart in her mother’s good boots, which were half a size too small, and counted the gulls on the chapel roof.
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